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[[caption-width-right:564:'''Translation''': "She would have been better off dead!"]]

''Sole Survivor'' is a 1984 horror film. It was a major influence on ''Film/FinalDestination'' and ''Film/ItFollows''.

Denise (Anita Skinner) is the SoleSurvivor of a plane crash. Upon being released from the hospital, though, she begins to experience strange phenomena, including the corpses of recently-deceased people coming to take her back. Cue the nightmarish ''Film/CarnivalOfSouls'' vibes.

Oh, and [[DidIMentionItsChristmas did I mention that this is a Christmas movie]]?

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!!This film contains the examples of:
* BolivianArmyEnding: [[spoiler:The movie ends with the medical examiner turning his back on the recent spate of victims, all of whom rise behind him, and then cuts.]]
* CameBackWrong: It's implied that [[spoiler:Karla]] became a servant or conduit of Death after surviving her suicide attempt.
* EvilElevator: The elevator that Denise takes at work malfunctions and traps her briefly on the wrong floor.
* FinalBoss: [[spoiler:Karla, as the only member of the "dead" who can talk, use reason, and retain most or all of their original personality.]]
* MyCarHatesMe: Denise struggles to start the car while fleeing her and Christy's houses.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The dead return to come get Denise (thus show very little intere st in anyone else at first); they walk slowly and can use weapons, but are not especially strong.
* ThePollyanna: Denise remains remarkably upbeat even though her parents are dead, she saw many people die in an air crash, and is being pursued by the dead.
* RedIsViolent: Red is a major ColorMotif throughout the movie. Denise wears a red sweater when Christy dies, a red cardigan in the taxi near the end, she has a red door, and there are red walls in Christy's house.
* RuleOfPool: PlayedForHorror. Late in the film, Christy has a pool. She is drowned in it by one of the recently-revived dead.
* ThousandYardStare: The dead are distinguished by their eerie staring into the middle distance.
* WhamShot: Of [[spoiler:Karla's]] slashed wrists.